Since 2008, the policy of deducting research and development (R&D) expenses for tax purposes has been formally recognized in legal terms. In order to encourage innovation and technological progress, and to assist businesses in enhancing their competitiveness and sustainable development capabilities, in recent years, the scope of the R&D expense deduction policy has gradually expanded.

• 2023-12-14 | 14:30 - 16:30
• Dun'an New City, 4th Floor, Alan's Western Restaurant

In the ever-evolving landscape of sustainability, the forthcoming workshop holds immense promise for key stakeholders in Shenyang, with a special focus on European businesses, automotive industry players, and other manufacturers. This gathering is strategically designed to equip the audience with actionable insights, fostering a collaborative environment where knowledge-sharing and real-world case studies around EU and China, North and South of China as well as automotive industry become the catalyst for positive change. The workshop's emphasis on practical know-how, especially from an end-user perspective, ensures that attendees, including European businesses in Shenyang, automotive industrialists, and manufacturers, gain invaluable tools to not only enhance their operations but also contribute meaningfully to the city's sustainable development.

• 2023-12-05 | 14:00 - 19:00
• Conrad Hotel 3rd Floor Ball Room/沈阳康莱德酒店三层大宴会厅

Decarbonization of the electric power system is the key to realize the “double carbon” target. EU SMEs have to increase the usage of renewable energy while decreasing coal power when facing the ever-growing demand in electricity. However, to meet the target is not simply stop using coal power, but to realize multi-energy integration and complementation by optimizing the combination of coal and new energy, and furtherly establish low-carbon electric power system with renewable energy as the main body.

• 2023-11-24 | 15:30 - 17:30
• Blue-whale SOHO 蓝鲸SOHO联合办公

中国欧盟商会天津分会诚挚邀请欧盟企业参与有欧盟商会和天津市政府共同举办的绿色电力（绿电）和可再生能源绿色电力证书（绿证）的专题研修班。本次研修班于2023年11月22日在天津举办，包含绿电和绿证专家分享、发电售电企业与用电企业商务对接，以及天津本地新能源发电厂实地参观三个环节。

• 2023-11-22 | 09:00 - 17:00
• 电力双碳中心八楼会议室

Faced with an increasingly unstable geopolitical and economic environment, industrial policy has been inserted as a core component in the agendas of the world’s largest three economies – the United States (US), China, and the European Union (EU). These strategies and regulations on renewable and low-carbon energy technologies, raw materials and technologies of the future are likely to result in profound implications on the global supply and value chains while reshaping industries especially high-tech sector such as semiconductors.

What is the global geopolitical and trade outlook look like amid this global industrial strategy race? What are the implications of the varying policy measures on the strategies of multinational companies? As the world is seemingly moving away from globalisation, how will the elevation of industrial strategies impact the liberalisation of global trade?

• 2023-11-03 | 15:00 - 16:45
• Zoom/ European Chamber Office Beijing

This roundtable discussion aims to provide an opportunity and open mind-set for members to discuss and exchange on the practices, rationale, challenges and future roadmap for staff management and entity operation.

本次圆桌会议旨在为中国欧盟商会会员企业，尤其是欧盟先进制造业企业，讨论和交流灵活工作时间实践思路和挑战。

• 2023-10-30 | 13:45 - 16:00
• European Chamber Tianjin Office

Opportunities and Challenges of Global Supply Chains

• 2023-10-12 | 16:00 - 17:30
• European Chamber Tianjin Office

*Participants from the automotive-related industry and automotive supply chain will enjoy free tickets.
Data sharing is a topic that is gaining traction worldwide.

The EU, for example, is enacting horizontal and sectoral legislation to further boost data sharing. The European strategy for data of February 2020 also foresaw the creation of common European data spaces in strategic sectors such as manufacturing, mobility and green deal. One of the most prominent data spaces is Catena-X, the first collaborative, open ecosystem for the automotive industry of the future, linking global players into end-to-end value chains, with the shared goal of a standardized global data exchange.

In China, at the end of 2022, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council jointly issued the Opinions on Building Basic Systems for Data to Better Give Full Play to the Role of Data Resources (Twenty Data Measures), aiming at fully leveraging China’s abundant data resources and rich application scenarios, and shedding light on Chinese-style data governance. Since then, relevant government agencies have stepped up efforts in exploring concrete policy measures.

• 2023-10-11 | 14:00 - 15:40
• Zoom/ European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405

The technology behind generative artificial intelligence (AI)—which can produce content such as text, imagery and audio—is developing at astonishing speeds. Following the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, this and other generative AI applications such as Stable Diffusion and GitHub Copilot, have captured public attention worldwide, thanks to their wide utility.

While the full economic potential of this technology is yet to be tapped into, there are a host of considerations and concerns for businesses and governments to take into account in the era of generative AI, not to mention the potential for legal and regulatory challenges.

• 2023-09-19 | 15:00 - 16:50
• Zoom/ European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405

2023 has seen China’s continued regulatory efforts that could impact foreign companies’ investment decisions in the country – for example, the newly introduced Anti-espionage Law and the tighter supervision over data. At the same time, the government has also rolled out a series of measures to optimise the business environment for foreign investors in a bid to demonstrate its support of FDI. The complex context in China has led to lots of discussions on whether China is still an attractive investment destination, especially amid the global supply chain diversification trend post-COVID. How should we identify the real status of FDI in the Chinese market today and tomorrow?

• 2023-09-13 | 15:00 - 16:30
• Zoom/ European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405